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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapter II, "Mother and Son" Pages 65-81.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What similarity is there between Kazu's approach to art and her approach to customers at the café?
(a) They are both objective.
(b) They are both intuitive.
(c) They are both analytical.
(d) They are both spontaneous.

2. What is Kyoko's objection to Gohtaro's plan to travel back into the past?
(a) She thinks it will be alarming for his friend.
(b) She believes that it is unnatural to try to subvert the normal flow of time.
(c) She thinks he is not being honest with himself about what he hopes to achieve.
(d) She does not believe it is really possible.

3. What does Gohtaro notice hanging on the café wall?
(a) Antique clocks.
(b) Paintings of ghosts.
(c) A metronome.
(d) A large hourglass.

4. What is a "mimetic expression" (47)?
(a) One that imitates the sound of the thing it names.
(b) One that conveys emphasis by understating a feeling.
(c) One that conveys a comparison indirectly.
(d) One that imitates a feeling generated by the thing it names.

5. What conclusion does Shuichi draw from the way Gohtaro handles the camera?
(a) Shuichi realizes that Gohtaro has bought the camera just for this occasion.
(b) Shuichi sees that Gohtaro has not changed at all in 22 years.
(c) Shuichi decides that Gohtaro is lying to him about his intentions.
(d) Shuichi worries that Gohtaro will not actually be able to make the camera work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks Kazu about her age?

2. What causes most potential customers to lose interest in the café's ability to send people back in time?

3. Whom does Yukio call when he goes outside?

4. What is the title of the book that the woman in the white dress used to read?

5. What is the name of the time-traveling café?

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